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jack of all trades, master also of all those trades. no prablem 👌

Love that Murderbot sees itself as the absolute worst most dangerous thing in any room at any given time

Except ☝️when a combat SecUnit or combat bot shows up

Then it's a very sudden turn to "I am a mid sized herding breed and that is a fucking wolf. All my sheep and myself are going to die"

caffeinatedopossum

"I'm still kicking" is such a funny way to say "I'm still alive". Like lol. I'm still thrashing. Flailing. Writhing even. The violence remains.

jdebbiel

sketching at the museum

prints available from June 9-16

scapegods

The Wheelers doing Wheeler things

mads-schubert

weeks 21-28 on my weekly poster challenge this year. Unfortunately I was only able to hit 28 out of 52 this year, so I know at least one goal for 2026.

1-10 here. 11-20 here.

booksandpaperss

kids trusting mike enough to lead them safely through a war zone vs will who is apparently fully down to tackle an elementary schooler is such a peak dynamic lmao

bugsbenefit

big fan actually of both Karen and Ted, independently of each other, trying to square up with a demogorgon to protect their kid(s)

after their whole gimmick has been that they're never there, don't know where their kids go, and even are the only relevant repeat characters who aren't in the loop about the upside down, it's Such good character work to have them see that giant monster in their home and try to fuck that thing up with essentially 0 hope of winning

s5 already has a pretty blatant through line of throwing your life on the line to protect those that are even more vulnerable than you (like the entire kids plot). but for it to not just extend to the main characters who've been dealing with the UD for years but also to the Wheelers? who don't even know what the fuck That Thing is, just that it's gonna hurt their family? real solid characterization

they got fucked up but damn if they didn't go down fighting for once

spirantization

The real tragedy of Merlin is that the creators were SO invested in maintaining the premise of the show (keep the magic secret!) that they bent characters and storylines around it to their own detriment. Whenever you find yourself asking “Why did X do that…?” you have to immediately say “Oh yes, because of the Premise.” You can’t give a good in-universe explanation because one doesn’t exist.

Nobody is more guilty of upholding the Premise than Gaslight Gatekeep Gaius, which is why he survived the whole show. Narratively, he should have died in s3/4 to allow Merlin to step into more of an advisory role, but they couldn’t kill off Gaius AND keep the magic secret. If Gaius had died, Merlin would have told Arthur about his magic the very next day.

The continued fandom engagement over a decade after the final episode aired is, without exception, about rejecting the premise of the show. Let’s remove those shackles. Let’s let the characters change & adapt & grow & react. Stop, please stop, keeping the magic secret. Let Merlin come out of the closet. Let him be happy for one single episode.

aconiteandausten

somehow haven't seen anyone point this one out yet??

svorine

tragbarerpanzrabwehrkomplexfagot

the-marxist-mash

It even crashes like a car in a ps2 game

seleneelune-deactivated20251014

vonkarmic

i think taylor swift wishes she was bisexual because she knows it would make her slightly more money. whereas sabrina carpenter wishes she was bisexual so she could have sex with someone who looks exactly like herself. and ariana grande wishes she was bisexual because she did too many designer drugs on the set of wicked and now she has kin memories of being glinda for real